ISSN: 1857-4149

Speech and Context

International Journal of Linguistics, Semiotics and Literary Science

Publication Policies and Procedures

Author Copyright Agreement

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the materials are their original works;
they have not previously been published;
they are not currently under consideration by another journal;
they do not contain anything that is illegal or infringes anyone’s copyright or other rights.

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Journal Publication Policies and Procedures

Journal Topics

- Overview of signs, speech and communication: overview of sign, overview of speech, speech aspects, overview of communication and speech act, sense and signification in communication, intention in communication, speech intelligibility;

- Types of sign, speech and interactional mechanisms in communication (types of sign: icon, index, symbol;

- Types of speech and interactional mechanisms in communication: speech act in everyday communication, mimic and gestures in communication, language for specific purposes, sense and signification in media communication, audio-visual language/pictorial language, language of music/language of dance, speech in institutional area, verbal language in cultural context, languages and communication within the European community;

- (Literary) language and social conditioning: ideology and language identity, language influences, morals and literary speech, collective mentality and literary image, (auto)biographic writings, between individual and social, voices, texts, reprezentation);

- Language, context, translation: role of context in translation, types of translation;

- Language or literature teaching and learning.

Submission of papers

Speech and Context is published in two issues. Calendar: Papers for volume 1 should be sent by email to the Editors at the following address: acosciug@yahoo.com, from January 1 till April 1. The journal reviewers consider anonymously the papers from April 2 till May 15 and the authors are informed by email about their decision. Proofs will be sent to the author for correction, and should be returned to the Editors by May 30. Note that all the materials proposed for publication in the journal will be accompanied by declarations signed by the authors to certify they are not plagiarized. This fact will be checked up by the materials reviewers and national and international scientific community. Volume 1 is published in June. Papers for volume 2 should be sent by email to the Editors at the following address: acosciug@yahoo.com, from July 1 till October 1. The journal reviewers consider anonymously the papers from October 2 till November 15 and the authors are informed by email about their decision. Proofs will be sent to the author for correction, and should be returned to the Editors by November 30. Volume 2 is published in December. Details: Do not attach your paper to a message without a personalized letter to the Editor. Please write on the subject line: Paper for Speech and Context. The personalized letter should include: full name, professional title, institutional affiliation, research topic. Authors should supply an autobiography of 50-100 words in English. Submitted papers are sent for external review and are reviewed according to unified criteria (see Journal Materials Evaluation Basic Criteria). Papers accepted for publication must respect the Notes for contributors required by the journal. From December 2016 Speech and Context Journal publishes papers written in English, French or German. Speech and Context can be made available both in print (100 copies for each issue) and online. All the expenses connected with the publication of papers are covered by Alecu Russo State University of Bălţi. Charges connected with the delivery of the volumes are covered by the authors.

Notes for Contributors

Papers are edited in Windows, format: B 5, font: Book Antigua, 11, single, justify. Papers Volume: 10 pages (including endnotes and references). The first page contains:

short title of the paper (Book Antigua, 11, bold, Center, printed) in English and Romanian;
author’s full name (Book Antigua, 11, bold, Center);
author’s professional title (below the first and last names) Book Antigua, 11, Center;
institutional affiliation (Book Antigua, 11, Center);
abstract (including 100-150 signs) and keywords (5-7) of the paper in English and Romanian (Book Antigua, 10, Italic).

Quotations should be displayed in the text with quotation marks. Examples in the text should be written: 6 pt, Book Antigua, 10.

References (7 at more) should be displayed in the text as follows: [1, p. 123], [7, p. 98]. References are listed alphabetically after the text, as follows:
books: Kerbrat-Orecchioni C. La connotation. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1977. 234 p., ISBN: 973-23457-08;
articles: Kleiber G. Contexte, interprétation et mémoire: approche standard vs approche cognitive. In: Langue française. Paris: Larousse, 1994, nr. 103, p. 24-39;
electronic materials: Luparenko S. Children’s Word Creation and Speech Development. http://www.usarb.md/glotodidactica/luparenco.pdf (visited 10.09.2014).

The materials should have references in Roman script.

Pages are not numbered.

Journal Materials Evaluation Basic Criteria

Submitted article should correspond to the journal topics. Paper should be presented in an explicit way in accordance with the topic of research. Research methodology should be modern. Paper should be based on adequate research strategies. Contribution should be based on relevant references. Submitted paper should contribute to the advancement of the research field.

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